Chapter 2

I was walking through my apartment on Genesis looking for something to eat. I had just come home from weapons training and hand to hand combat training. I opened my fridge but, as usual with my lack of money lately, it was empty except for a roll of bread and some cheese. Sighing I grabbed both and a knife and started to eat like I was some damned mutant mouse.

Chewing on my stale bread and cheese I started watching some TV to catch up on the current news of not only my colony but the others as well.

"This is always so depressing." I sighed to my empty apartment. Or at least I thought it was empty.

"Of course it is. That is why it's called the news." A deep voice said next to my ear. I jumped and started to try and turn to see who the voice belonged to; but a gloved hand with at towel covered my mouth. I had taken in a breath by reflex and cursed myself mentally. I raged at myself for not sensing him when I came in the door. Where could he have been hiding? My apartment was tiny. There was nowhere in that area that this person could have been standing without me seeing him.

I could now feel the numbness on my lips and nose from whatever drug he, it was definitely a man behind me, had put on the rag. I held my breath and struggled and got a few good rib shots in, but just as his grip on me loosened I fell in to the blackness of the drug that finally swept me under.

I awoke with a start and bolted straight up in bed. I was naked to my waist except for bandages that where around my shoulder and chest. I had moved too fast and I doubled over from the searing pain.

"FUCK!" I writhed as I clutched my side. Both my ribs and my shoulder where now throbbing in time with my pulse again.

"Well that was lady like." A woman with short black hair and a false leg chuckled while she reached for me. I looked around the room and tried to remember what had happened. Memories came back to me in a rush, the plants and the men that got me out of the dangerous vines.

"My name is Chen. What's yours?" Chen said as she tried to gently lay me back down on the bed.

"Rem…My…name is…Rem" I gasped out as I was being laid back down. There were others in the room. A man with shaggy blonde hair and mocking glare, a man with long black hair and piercing blue eyes, and from the blurry images that I could remember the two men that had helped me in the forest…if it could be called a forest…were over by the door as well.

"Good. Now please don't sit up, you'll injure yourself further. From what Rada and Yui tell us you're lucky to be alive." She told me as she covered me up with a blanket.

"Weird name." the blonde sneered at me.

"Like yours is any less weird Zagi." The black haired blue eyed man chided him with a nudge to his ribs. Zagi just glared back at him with a smug smile.

"Where am I? And what is this place?"

"Well, if you are asking those questions, then answer one of mine before I answer you." The black haired man questioned.

"Sure… what?"

"What Colony are you from?"

"Thor, why do you think she's from a Colony?" Chen asked him. Thor looked at me expectantly, waiting for my answer. It looked like the others in the room were just as confused as Chen was as to the reason he had asked me that. All except Zagi that is, he looked at me the same way Thor did.

"Genesis." Thor and Zagi's eyes went wide. They looked a little astonished. And I didn't know why. Zagi started laughing and Thor got a measuring look in his eye.

"How far did you get from your pod with no weapons in the forest of the Bellasonas and Wrath Vines?" Thor asked me curiously.

"I've been running from those damned mutant plants for two days, if that's what you want to know."I was hurt, hungry, and angry that I didn't really have a clue as to where I was. But thankfully, at my grumpy comment Zagi stopped laughing. Which I was happy for, he for some reason really aggravated me on a really primal level. It almost made my skin itch the way he looked at me.

"Thor…" Zagi looked at Thor and then to me and he had the biggest grin on his face that it made me very nervous.

"I know Zagi." Thor sighed as he looked at me.

"You are on a planet called Chimera. And as you can see the dominate species on this planet is the plant life. Do you have any idea why you were sent here? From Genesis of all places?" Thor prompted me.

"No, and I have never heard of this planet before. What the heck is going on?"

"You must have really pissed someone off on your Colony kid." Zagi remarked. I resented the kid comment. I was not a child. I was seventeen and a damned good fighter. I glared at him. I really was starting to hate the smug look on his face. It was irritating. Chen apparently saw my irritation, and if she did the others no doubt did too.

"Ok, out. Come on boys let's see she gets a little rest before you go throwing her to the wolves." Chen said as she shooed the men out of the room and into the hallway.

"I'll be back to talk with you about the rules and history later when you can sit up." Thor said smiling and waving as he walked out the door. I covered my face with my right hand as the door closed and sighed.

Great, just great, all I want is to go home, but I had to figure out why I was sent here to begin with. And in order to do that I had to survive long enough to figure all that out. Thor and Zagi seemed to be the only ones to realize what kind of Colony I had come from though. They seemed to be the people in charge as well. So, it looks like they would be the ones to talk to. I sighed again staring up at the ceiling and trying not to move too much, avoiding the pain.

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"Rada, Yui, you said she had no weapons at all?" I asked again to my two best fighters other than Zagi that is.

"None Thor, and she said two days? No one can do that. And those plants where all over her." Rada answered in a worried tone. Because the women population had been dropping steadily more every year, they were treated as precious dolls. Most of the women here though, were warriors in their own right and resented the cotton wool that most men would try to wrap around them.

"Heh! If you hadn't interfered she probably could have gotten herself out of the Wrath Vines you found her in. Was she freeing herself when you stumbled upon her or screaming?" Zagi asked curiously. Rada and Yui looked up trying to remember what they stumbled across while hunting. Yui looked down first, mouth open and eyes wide.

"NO way! He's right! After those two screams there was nothing…we thought that she was dead and we would come across a body; but when we got to her, though, she had her right arm free. I think she stopped fighting so hard after she saw us though." Yui said looking into Zagi's and then my face.

"Sounds like the Genesis warriors don't you think Thor?" Zagi grinned at me. It was obvious that he was taking a real liking to the new comer. And if I could read the glimmer in his eye, he intended for her to stay. Zagi had a thing for warrior women…especially the beautiful small but deadly kind. And this Rem was defiantly a small and deadly little package.

'I can't think like that right now' I thought to myself as I let out a sigh and kept walking, but my thoughts kept straying just like Zagi's must have been. He was grinning way too much for him not to be planning something.

Rem was beautiful, at 5'3" she probably would have been just under Tiz and Karim's height. And she did have very pretty green-gold eyes. They were mesmerizing…I shook my head to try and clear it. God, had it really been three years since I had lost the two most important women to me. I hadn't participated in the past Months of Joining, well, because, none of those women could come anywhere near the two I had lost.

Hell, I knew that if I joined a fight would start too. I was always asked by an abundant amount of women if I would be their partner for the Month. I would always decline. And if Zagi participated it wasn't known to anyone but him and that partner. I sighed again. I was thinking about this too much. First Rem had to prove herself worthy of being able to stay here. I knew Zagi was thinking of a plan at this very moment for that, no doubt in my mind…

Why was it that we always had the same women in mind for our own.

"Why all the sighing leader?" Zagi smirked…

"Let it go Zagi…"

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